New Carhartt store opens in SydneyThere are a select few brands that take you through your toddler, teen and adult years. Even fewer that you can transition in easily from work to play. But if you’re partial to solid design, and durable clothing mixed with street aesthetic, Carhartt is your label. Founded by Hamilton Carhartt...
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Ormeggio at The Spit
New Northern Italian waterside eateryMust eat? Must impress? Be notably new? Alessandro Pavoni and Fraser Gutherie’s fine Northern Italian, waterside eatery meticulously meets your brief. Chef Pavoni offers a new menu inspired by the regional cuisine that runs in his blood; simple seafood, game meats and polenta that the Lombardia region is famous for. As...
Inside Kings Vault
King Valley’s secretsWe can’t tell you the secret location, or why there are odd opening times, but you can expect a Vault full of special wines from Victoria’s King Valley region to pop-up soon. King’s Vault – a blink and you’ll miss it bar opens for less than a week and will be located in...
French Navy
Good manners. Being polite. Knowing the right thing to say or do in any situation. If this elegant trio is held near and dear, you and Miss French Navy will get along just swimmingly. Launching her new stationery collection “to connect people through beautiful words, images, design and thoughtful actions”, this Mademoiselle has your social...
A festival of Sydney proportions
Sydney Festival 2010If you like the weather hot, your options for exceptional theatre, dance, music and film diverse, and the chance to see superstar artists like Al Green, Neko Case and AR Rahman (for nix) then you should know exactly what’s coming around the corner. Sydney Festival 2010 tickets go on sale today, with a bursting-at-the-seams program...
Bicycle built for 2000
Sydney Bicycle Film FestivalGetting hit by a bus usually inspires self-pity and some plaster cast doodles but this was not the case for Brendt Barbur, the Founder and Director of the Bicycle Film Festival. The event, which turns nine this year, is held in 39 cities around the world. Next stop Sydney. Free wheelin’, pedal...
Art Attack
Retail stores have come and gone, more recently restaurants too. It was only a matter of time before Art touched in on the pop-up scene, and now – for a short while – gallery-like dining is here. Throughout November the restaurants, around the pool and in the laneway of ivy you can expect giant teddy...
Shoes of Prey
You hunt, you prey – solo and in packs; whatever it takes to find the perfect shoes. It’s a genetic trait that has been passed down from generations, a predatory skill you might say. Knowing that women are constantly in search of the perfect fit, the founders of Shoes of Prey have pounced on a...
Gone to the dogs
The world is divided into three kinds of people; dog people, cat people, no pets thank you people. This weekend, the latter two sorts should stay well away from Sydney Olympic Park as the place will be overrun with dogs of all shapes and sizes. DogMatchers (animal behaviour expert) will be on site offering advice...
Topshop opens shop in Sydney
Incu presents TopshopThere’ll be frenzy, no doubt, in Paddington this morning (29 October), with the 10am opening of Incu presents Topshop. Incu is the exclusive stockist for Topshop in Australia. Enter the newly refurbished (by Kelvin Ho) Paddington store for two levels of UK High Street fashion bliss; all the coveted outfits, shoes, bags and accessories...